UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA  agricultural  Experiment  Station 

College  of  agriculture  e.  j.  wickson,  director 

BERKELEY,   CALIFORNIA 


CIRCULAR  No.  34 

(October,  1907.) 


CALIFORNIA 

STATE   FARMERS'   INSTITUTE 

AT   THE 

UNIVERSITY    FARM 

DAVISVILLE 

TUESDAY,  WEDNESDAY,  AND  THURSDAY, 
OCTOBER   29,   30,  AND   31,   1907 


This  Institute  is  to  extend  popular  knowledge  of  the  aims  and 
objects  of  The  University  Farm  and  to  bring  to  the  Farm,  at  its  open- 
ing, those  interested  in  Agricultural  education;  also  to  afford  the  op- 
portunity to  agriculturists  generally  to 'learn  by  observation  the  activi- 
ties of  the  College  of  Agriculture  and  Experiment  Station  of  the 
University  of  California,  as  shown  in  this  branch  of  its  work.  A 
varied  schedule  of  exercises  has  been  provided,  as  shown  upon  the 
following  pages,  allowing  those  in  attendance  to  participate  in  dis- 
cussions of  great  importance  to  the  advancement  of  the  agriculture 
of  the  State  and  the  prosperity  of  those  connected  therewith.  The 
Question  Box  will  also  be  continually  open  and  will  afford  opportun- 
ity for  the  introduction  of  other  important  topics.  Free  discussion 
will  follow  the  formal  addresses  so  far  as  time  will  permit. 


Tuesday  Afternoon,  October  29,  1:30  o'clock. 

Addresses  of  Welcome  President  Bqnj.  Ide  Wheeler. 

Mr.  Geo.  W.  Pierce,  Davisville. 

Responses  F.  H.  Babb,  Lecturer  State  Grange. 

Hon.  Marshall  Diggs,  President  Sac- 
ramento Valley  Development  As- 
sociation. 

Hon.  B.  F.  Rush,  President  State 
Board  of  Agriculture. 

Hon.  A.  E.  Boynton,  Oroville. 

Hon.  J.  I.  McConnell,  Woodland. 

Address  His    Excellency    James    N.    Gillett, 

Governor  of  California. 

Tuesday  Evening,  October  29,  7:30  o'clock. 

General  Subject:—  Agricultural  Education  and  the  University  Farm. 

Agricultural  Education  President  Benj.  Ide  Wheeler. 

Hon.  Peter  J.  Shields. 
Prof.  E.  J.  Wickson. 

Wednesday  Morning,  October  30,  9:30  o'clock. 

Taxation  Mr.  John  Tuohy,  Tulare. 

Secondary  Agricultural  Prof.  Leroy  Anderson,  Director  Cali- 

Schools  fornia  Polytechnic  School. 

The  New  Pure  Food  Laws  of    Prof.  M.  E.  Jaffa,  Director  State  Food 
California  and  Drug  Laboratory. 

Farmers'  Institutes  in  South- 
ern California  Mr.  J.  B.  Neff,  Anaheim. 

Wednesday  Afternoon,  October  30,  1:30  o'clock. 

What   the   University   Farm 

can  do  for  Irrigation  Professor    Fortier,    Chief    Irrigation 

Investigations,    U.  S.    Dept.    of 
Agriculture,  Washington,    D.  C. 
General  Subject  '.—Animal  Industries. 

Animal    Industry    and     the 

University  Farm  Prof.  E.  W.  Major. 

Bovine  Tuberculosis  Dr.  A.  R.  Ward. 

General  discussion  of  live  stock  interests. 


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Wednesday  Evening,  October  30,  7:30  o'clock. 

White  Fly  Situation  in  Cali- 
fornia Prof.  C.  W.  Woodworth. 

Sulfuring  and  Fruit  Drying      A.  R.  Briggs,  President  State  Board 

of  Trade. 

Forestry  G.  B.  Lull,  State  Forester. 

Inland  Waterways  Dr.  C.  E.  Edwords,    California  Pro- 

motion Committee. 


Thursday  Morning,  October  31,  9:30  o'clock. 

General  Subject: — Viticulture. 

Viticulture  and   the  Univer- 
sity Farm  F.  T.  Bioletti. 

Wine  Grapes  Frank  Swett. 

Table  Grapes  Mrs.  M.  E.  Sherman. 

Thursday  Afternoon,  October  31,  1:30  o'clock. 

General  Subject :— Cereal  Improvement  and  Sugar  Beets. 

Cereal  Improvement  Prof.    G.    W.    Shaw,     University   of 

California. 

Milling  Wheats  Hon.  Horace  Davis,  San  Francisco. 

Wheat  Growing  G.  W.  Pierce,  Davisville. 

The  Sugar  Beet  Mr.  J.  G.  Hamilton,  Hamilton  City. 

The  public  is  cordially  invited  to  attend  the  sessions.  Trans- 
portation by  the  Southern  Pacific  to  and  from  Davis  can  be 
secured  at  one  and  one-third  rates  for  the  round  trip  on  the  cer- 
tificate plan.     Take  receipt  from  agent  when  purchasing  ticket. 


W.  T.  Clarke, 

Superintendent  of  University  Extension  in  Agriculture. 


University  of  California, 

Berkeley,  October  15,  1907. 


